A cold, clinical descent into the body’s weak points, Low Blows reads like a field manual from the shadow side of medicine. N. Mashiro dissects vulnerability with precision, mapping where flesh, nerve, and instinct collide under pressure. It’s less about healing and more about exposure, revealing how fragile the human system becomes when pushed just slightly off balance.

In his third installment of the Black Medicine series, author N. Mashiro shows you how to use  your body's natural weapons to their devastating full potential. Having learned from experience that an exclusively weapon-oriented student seems to fall apart when required to fight unarmed, Mashiro teaches the bare-handed necessities first.

Learn the secrets of fistfighting, escapes from chokes and headlocks, unarmed defense against knives and clubs, and more. As Mashiro teaches,

"Self-defense techniques are by nature dirty, crude, damaging, and painful. They are also very, very effective."